The MAST Questionnaire

The MAST Questionnaire addresses in detail a variety of medical and psychosocial disorders
that are regularly associated with substance abuse, as well as some specific questions about the
medical and legal consequences of alcohol abuse. Review it as a useful guide to further inquiry.
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Do you feel you are a normal drinker?

Have you ever awakened in the morning after some drinking
the night before and found that you could not remember part of
the evening?
Does your wife (or husband or parents) ever worry or
complain about your drinking?
Can you stop drinking without a struggle after one or two
drinks?
Do you ever feel bad about your drinking?
Do you ever try to limit your drinking to certain times of day
or to certain places?
Do your friends or relatives think that you are a normal
drinker?
Are you always able to stop when you want to?
Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous?
Have you gotten into fights when drinking?
Has drinking ever created problems with you and your wife
(husband)?
Has your wife (husband or other family member) ever gone to
anyone for help about your drinking?
Have you ever lost friends of girlfriends/boyfriends because of
drinking?
Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?
Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?
Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your
work for two days or more in a row because of drinking?
Do you ever drink before noon?
Have you ever been told you have liver trouble?
Have you ever had DTs (delirium tremens), severe shaking,
heard voices or seen things that werent there after heavy
drinking?
Have you ever gone to anyone fore help about your drinking?
Have you ever been in a hospital because of drinking?
Have you ever been a patient in a psychiatric hospital or on a
psychiatric ward of a general hospital where drinking was part
of the problem?
Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric or mental health
clinic, or gone to a doctor or clergyman for help with an
emotional problem in which drinking has played a part?
Have you ever been arrested, even for a few hours, because of
drunken behavior?
Have you ever been arrested for drunk driving or driving after
drinking?

(No 2)
(Yes 2)

Yes
No

(Yes 1)

No

(No 2)

Yes

(Yes 2)
(Yes 0)

No
No

(No 2)

Yes

(No 2)
(Yes 5)
(Yes 1)
(Yes 2)

Yes
No
No
No

(Yes 2)

No

(Yes 2)

No

(Yes 2)
(Yes 2)
(Yes 2)

No
No
No

(Yes 1)
(Yes 2)
(Yes 2)

No
No
No

(Yes 5)
(Yes 5)
(Yes 2)

No
No
No

(Yes 2)

No

(Yes 2)

No

(Yes 2)

No

A score of three points or less is considered nonalcoholic; a score of four points is suggestive,
and a score of five points or more indicates alcoholism.